Rise at Seven | Search-First Creative Agency

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own the monthly close for UK, US, Holdings and EU entities, including accruals, prepayments, reconciliations and intercompany
• Maintain working papers for every balance and prepare management accounts and commentary for the Board pack
• Run payroll checks and submissions with UK and US providers and approve bank payments within agreed limits
• Hold Client Services, Operations and craft teams accountable for close inputs
• Maintain financial controls and segregation of duties
• Partner with Client Services, Operations and the Senior Management Team on commercial decisions
• Support pricing and renewals using the master rate card
• Report client and project profitability, recovery, utilisation and staff cost ratios
• Identify scope creep, over-servicing and under-pricing and recommend corrective actions
• Ensure scope and billing changes are properly contracted
• Own the rolling revenue forecast and explain month-to-month movements
• Build and maintain the 13-week cash flow forecast across entities
• Own debtor management and collections, keeping debtor days at or below 60
• Track client concentration and flag clients approaching 10% of group revenue
• Model the impact of hiring and cost decisions
• Support the annual budget and re-forecasts
• Own monthly revenue recognition in line with FRS 102 using Dawn
• Reconcile Dawn revenue to the general ledger monthly
• Help build multi-entity consolidation and intercompany forecasting using Xero and consolidation tooling
• Lead and develop the Finance Assistant
• Document processes and remove single points of failure

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